Field hospital annihilation in Jasieniec near Rybno

On 13 September 1939 German tanks destroyed a field hospital located in a barn where 50 wounded Polish soldiers were being treated. The crime took place in Jasieniec near Rybno. Reports say that 16 German tanks encircled a barn which had Red Cross flags on. First incendiary projectiles were fired and then tanks destroyed the barn killing all people gathered inside. Only 4 people are reported to have been saved. Among them, Tadeusz Starzyński, one of the survivors, was 15 at that time.


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• http://www.cenaprawdy.net/index.php/historia/6526-niemieckie-stodoly-smierci-sladem-zbrodni accessed on 26 March 2018